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Recipe for Magic: WPP and NVIDIA Omniverse Help The Coca-Cola Company Scale Generative AI Content That Pops With Brand Authenticity

With NVIDIA NIM microservices USD Search and USD Code, marketing leader WPP is enabling the beverage company to accelerate iteration on creative campaigns at a global scale.
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When The Coca-Cola Company produces thirst-quenching marketing, the creative elements of campaigns aren’t just left to chance — there’s a recipe for the magic. Now, the beverage company, through its partnership with WPP Open X, is beginning to scale its global campaigns with generative AI from NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA NIM microservices.

“With NVIDIA, we can personalize and customize Coke and meals imagery across 100-plus markets, delivering on hyperlocal relevance with speed and at global scale,” said Samir Bhutada, global vice president of StudioX Digital Transformation at The Coca-Cola Company.

Coca-Cola has been working with WPP to develop digital twin tools and roll out Prod X — a custom production studio experience created specifically for the beverage maker to use globally.

WPP announced today at SIGGRAPH that The Coca-Cola Company will be an early adopter for integrating the new NVIDIA NIM microservices for Universal Scene Description (aka OpenUSD) into its Prod X roadmap. OpenUSD is a 3D framework that enables interoperability between software tools and data types for building virtual worlds. NIM inference microservices provide models as optimized containers.

The USD Search NIM allows WPP to tap into a large archive of models to create on-brand assets, and the USD Code NIM can be used to assemble them into scenes.

These NIM microservices will enable Prod X users to create 3D advertising assets that contain culturally relevant elements on a global scale, using prompt engineering to quickly make adjustments to AI-generated images so that brands can better target their products at local markets.

Tapping Into NVIDIA NIM Microservices to Deploy Generative AI 

WPP said that the NVIDIA NIM microservices will have a lasting impact on the 3D engineering and art world.

The USD Search NIM can make WPP’s massive visual asset libraries quickly available via written prompts. The USD Code NIM allows developers to enter prompts and get Python code to create novel 3D worlds.

“The beauty of the solution is that it compresses multiple phases of the production process into a single interface and process,” said Perry Nightingale, senior vice president of creative AI at WPP, of the new NIM microservices. “It empowers artists to get more out of the technology and create better work.”

Redefining Content Production With Production Studio

WPP recently announced the release of Production Studio on WPP Open, the company’s intelligent marketing operating system powered by AI. Co-developed with its production company, Hogarth, Production Studio taps into the Omniverse development platform and OpenUSD for its generative AI-enabled product configurator workflows.

Production Studio can streamline and automate multilingual text, image and video creation, simplifying content creation for advertisers and marketers, and directly addresses the challenges advertisers continue to face in producing brand-compliant and product-accurate content at scale.

“Our groundbreaking research with NVIDIA Omniverse for the past few years, and the research and development associated with having built our own core USD pipeline and decades of experience in 3D workflows, is what made it possible for us to stand up a tailored experience like this for The Coca-Cola Company,” said Priti Mhatre, managing director for strategic consulting and AI at Hogarth.

SIGGRAPH attendees can hear more about WPP’s efforts by joining the company’s session on “Robotics, Generative AI, and OpenUSD: How WPP Is Building the Future of Creativity.”

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will also be featured at the event in fireside chats with Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and WIRED Senior Writer Lauren Goode. Watch the talks and other sessions from NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2024 on demand.

Photo credit: WPP, The Coca-Cola Company

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NVIDIA, KRAFTON, NC and Reigning ‘League of Legends’ Champions T1 Celebrate RTX Spark at Korea’s PC Bangs

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At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang headed to South Korea, where he introduced RTX Spark to the nation’s passionate gaming community.

Leading game developers — including Korea’s KRAFTON and NC — are already working to bring their titles to RTX Spark-powered systems. 

Designed for local AI, creating and gaming, RTX Spark brings together 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and small, ultraefficient desktop PCs. 

With the superchip, gamers can play AAA games at 1440p resolution and over 100 frames per second with NVIDIA ray tracing, DLSS and Reflex technologies. In addition, RTX Spark supports all NVIDIA RTX technologies, including the recently announced DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, which features a second-generation transformer model for realistic image quality. 

RTX Spark Ignites Korea’s Gaming Community

Korea has played a major role in spearheading esports and driving the boom in PC bangs, or internet and gaming cafes. With longstanding collaborations rooted in the country, NVIDIA in October celebrated 25 years of GeForce in Korea with a free festival for gamers, highlighting the rich gaming ecosystem that has been built over decades.   

On Friday, Huang headed to T1 Base Camp — a PC bang owned by T1, one of Korea’s top esports teams. There, he met with T1’s reigning League of Legends World Champion team, including six-time World Champion Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok to unveil RTX Spark. 

NVIDIA and Riot Games — developer of League of Legends — are collaborating to bring the title as well as VALORANT to RTX Spark, expanding gamers’ access to high-performance gaming on slim laptops. 

To mark the occasion, T1 Base Camp attendees had the chance to win RTX Spark laptops, League of Legends and T1 merch signed by Huang and Faker, as well as GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs. 

Surprising PC-Bang Gamers 

Later, Huang headed to Seoul’s Gangnam district, where he surprised PC-bang gamers with a first look at RTX Spark with KRAFTON and NC. 

At the first stop, Optimum Zone PC, Huang and KRAFTON Chairman Byung-gyu Chang showcased PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS and Subnautica 2 on RTX Spark to a captivated crowd of gamers. 

Gamers then got the surprise chance to play with the unreleased PUBG Ally, a co-playable character built with NVIDIA ACE technologies on RTX Spark laptops. PUBG Ally resulted from AI research and development at KRAFTON and NVIDIA, part of an initiative to create next-generation game characters that act like teammates and enable more meaningful, immersive engagements with players.

Next, Huang stopped at another PC bang, Portal PC, where he showcased NC’s CINDER CITY and AION 2 on RTX Spark, with support from Taekjin Kim, co-CEO of NC. 

NC and NVIDIA began working together in the early 2000s on the Lineage franchise and have since collaborated to integrate RTX technology into many of NC’s flagship games, including Lineage 2, AION, Blade & Soul, AION 2 and CINDER CITY. 

Gamers at Portal PC were given the chance to play a demo of NC’s highly anticipated open-world massively multiplayer online tactical shooter CINDER CITY on GeForce RTX-powered PCs.  

CINDER CITY will support the DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and Super Resolution features at launch. Plus, gamers will be able to experience the title on slim RTX Spark laptops and compact desktops when the game is released later this year. 

In addition to KRAFTON, NC, and Riot Games, 100+ Windows software providers and game developers are embracing RTX Spark. These partners include NetEase, Remedy Entertainment and XBOX. 

Learn more about RTX Spark and its launch partners.

Forecast: Fun Ahead — 18 Games Join in June to Stream on GeForce NOW

Kick off the summer with 10 games this week, including the highly requested surreal open-world adventure, ‘Neverness to Everness.’
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June’s forecast with GeForce NOW: 100% chance of gaming.

GeForce NOW is lining up new adventures for the month, from big-name blockbusters to quirky indies ready for the spotlight. Members can dive into fresh worlds, squad up in new playlists and discover “just one more run” favorites — all streaming from the cloud, no downloads or upgrades required. 

Eighteen games are coming this month, starting with the 10 games arriving this week with the highly requested Neverness to Everness

A World Beyond

City limits end where reality bends.

Step into a surreal, supernatural open world in NTE: Neverness to Everness from Hota Studio. Reality bends, streets twist into impossible angles and the uncanny waits around every corner.

Play as an anomaly hunter drawn into a strange metropolis alive with anomalies, cosmic oddities and dreamlike encounters. Explore the city’s districts at street level or from impossible heights, uncovering secrets, side stories and hidden paths woven through the tangled skyline. Combat and exploration blend together as players move between quiet, eerie spaces and sudden bursts of action. 

Every alleyway and rooftop hides something strange and new, from bizarre characters to otherworldly phenomena that reshape the environment in unexpected ways.

Streaming with GeForce NOW lets the game’s distinctive art direction and atmospheric lighting shine, keeping the city’s moody glow, deep shadows and supernatural effects crisp and sharp. 

Whether wandering its streets on a big screen or checking in from a laptop, NTE: Neverness to Everness stays fluid and immersive — powered by the cloud.

June Games Juicing Up the Cloud

A legend returns.

Return to the Valley of Mines in Gothic 1 Remake, a faithful rebuild of the original experience that expands the world with more detailed questlines, additional nonplayer character routines and reactions, new traversal abilities and a fully modernized combat system. Step into the role of the Nameless Hero and explore a dangerous prison colony filled with rival factions, ancient magic, deadly creatures and choices that shape the journey ahead. 

Whether revisiting a classic or discovering it for the first time, GeForce NOW makes it easy to jump into the adventure instantly across nearly any device, no downloads required.

Check out what all is available this week:

  • Jurassic World Evolution 3 (New release on Xbox, available on Game Pass)
  • Fatekeeper (New release on Steam, available June 2)
  • House Flipper Remastered Collection (New release on Steam, available June 4)
  • Pro Cycling Manager 26 (New release on Steam, available June 4)
  • GOALS (New release on Steam, available June 4)
  • Gothic 1 Remake (New release on Steam, available June 5)
  • NTE: Neverness to Everness (Launcher)
  • The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition (Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass)
  • Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (Epic Games Store)
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Steam)

And look forward to the games coming throughout the month:

  • STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions (New release on Steam, June 11)
  • SpaceCraft (New release on Steam, June 11)
  • Denshattack! (New release on Steam and Xbox, available on Game Pass, June 17)
  • The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (New release on Steam, June 18)
  • Dark Scrolls (New release on Steam, June 22)
  • Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains (New release on Steam and Ubisoft, June 30)
  • Farever (Steam)
  • FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves (Steam

More From May

In addition to the 16 games announced last month, 18 more joined the GeForce NOW library:

What are you planning to play this weekend? Let us know X or in the comments below.

The Name’s Gaming … Cloud Gaming: ‘007 First Light’ Launches on GeForce NOW

Step into James Bond’s origin story with an Ultimate membership bundle offer and reward — plus eight new games in the cloud.
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007 First Light on GeForce NOW

License to stream, shaken and stirred.

GeForce NOW is dialing up the espionage with the launch of 007 First Light, letting members slip into James Bond’s reimagined origin story from almost any device — no tux or preloads required. 

For a limited time, the game is included with the purchase of a 12‑month GeForce NOW Ultimate membership, letting members lock in Bond’s next mission and a year of top-tier cloud gaming in one shot.

And for those stepping into the role, the look comes with it. Daring Elite Outfit, a signature look capturing the spirit of a rising agent, is now available for Ultimate members — equal parts discipline, ambition and edge.

And catch Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem demo in the cloud — catch an early portion of the game and discover its two sides: terrifying survival horror with Grace Ashcroft, and pulse-pounding action with Leon S. Kennedy

This GFN Thursday also brings eight new games to the cloud, expanding the library with even more ways to play across genres.

Mission Assigned

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First light, first mission.

The mission begins before the legend. 007 First Light puts players in the shoes of James Bond at the dawn of his career, when instincts are sharp, rules are flexible and every decision shapes the agent he’s destined to become. This is a Bond who’s still earning his “00” — unpolished, dangerous and learning when to trust a plan and when to improvise under fire.

A cinematic spy thriller unfolds with high-stakes infiltration, tense encounters and stylish set pieces. One moment brings thrills working undercover at an opulent event — the next, white‑knuckle chases and close‑quarters confrontations where timing and composure are everything. Approaches to each mission — quiet and calculated, bold and aggressive, or something in between — define Bond’s path and the allies and enemies that cross it.

Stream it all with GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU power in the cloud, with up to 5K high dynamic range and cinematic-quality streaming for Ultimate members. Experience Bond’s origin story in razor-sharp detail across devices — no high-end PC required.

Keep It Daring

007 First Light Reward on GeForce NOW
Tailored. Tactical. Dangerously sharp.

Looks speak first.

A new 007 First Light reward drops today on GeForce NOW, delivering Ultimate members a refined,  unmistakably bold way to step into the world of espionage.

The Daring Elite Outfit blends calculated precision with effortless style — the kind that turns heads before the mission even begins. Sleek, confident and just a little dangerous, it’s built for agents who understand that presence is a part of the playbook.

All rewards are available starting now through Saturday, June 27, or while supplies last. To claim, log in to a GeForce NOW account, head to the rewards section in the account portal and redeem.

Keep It Heated

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Time to get heated.

Armored battles get hero-driven in Wargaming’s free-to-play, player vs. player vehicle shooter, World of Tanks: HEAT, now streaming on GeForce NOW.

World of Tanks: HEAT is the franchise’s first hero-driven tank action game, where powerful Agents and their experimental machines shape every fight. Fast-paced 5v5 and 10v10 matches erupt into high-velocity brawls as hero-enhanced tanks trade explosive bursts, clutch escapes and momentum-shifting abilities.

Each Agent brings a unique tool kit and vehicle lineup, layering team roles and synergy on top of sharp aim and smart positioning. It’s classic steel-on-steel combat with a hero-shooter twist, now available in the cloud. The next match is always just a quick deployment away on GeForce NOW.

Keep It Playing

Community stories take the spotlight this week as an Ultimate member on Reddit shares a heartfelt note about what GeForce NOW means to daily gaming.

In addition, members can look for the following:

  • Romestead (New release on Steam, May 26)
  • World of Tanks: HEAT (New release on Steam, May 26)
  • 007 First Light (New release on Steam, Epic Games Store and Xbox, available on the Microsoft store, May 26)
  • Starminer (New release on Steam, May 27)
  • Resident Evil Requiem Demo (New release on Steam, May 27)
  • Alchemy Factory (Steam)
  • BeamNG.drive (Epic Games Store)
  • Ostranauts (Steam)

What are you planning to play this weekend? Let us know on X or in the comments below.